Actress Courteney Cox is brushing off ongoing reports about her love life, insisting the dating rumors are just “a part of life”. Since separating from husband David Arquette in 2010, the Friends star has been romantically linked to her Cougar Town co-stars Brian Van Holt and Josh Hopkins – and she even vacationed with the latter in St. Barts last week.

But Cox insists her co-stars are just friends who have been offering her their support at a difficult time in her life.

She tells Harper’s Bazaar, “He’s (Brian Van Holt) a really good friend of mine, so I don’t care. It just doesn’t matter. He’s a great guy, and he’s definitely been a part of my support system.

“We (Brian Van Holt and I) were doing a scene out on a dock in Marina del Rey (California), and there were pictures of the two of us. As if that’s where I’m going to go (to) have a private moment.

“How about the camera that was right there and all the cast members to the left that were completely cut out? But I’m used to it. It happened on Friends… That’s just a part of life.”